Fans of the Beeb’s crime thriller series The Fall should be chuffed with this news: Jamie Dornan will be reuniting with writer Allan Cubitt for a brand new series. The actor is now offically done with the Fifty Shades trilogy, and is staying closer to home for this brand new project.
Death And Nightingales is set to be adapted from the bestselling book by Eugene McCabe, and Dornan will be joined by Matthew Rhys (The Americans) and Ann Skelly (Red Rock) in the new three part drama.
Per the BBC, Death And Nightingales is a “riveting story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge, set in the beautiful haunting countryside of Fermanagh in 1885. A place where neighbours observe each other and inform, a world of spies, confessions and double dealing; where a pervading sense of beauty is shot through with menace and impending doom.”
Okay, that does sounds pretty good, yep.
Here’s an official synopsis to further intrigue you:
“Set over a desperately tense 24- hour period, it’s Beth Winters’ (Ann Skelly) 25th birthday – the day she has decided to join the charming Liam Ward (Jamie Dornan) and escape from her limited life and difficult and complex relationship with her Protestant landowner stepfather Billy (Matthew Rhys). As decades of pain and betrayal finally build to a devastating climax, Death And Nightingales is a powerful and gripping drama that follows a woman struggling to control her own destiny and will illuminate tensions that tear both families and nations apart.”
“I’m thrilled to be reunited with Allan and his brilliant scripts to play such an intriguing character like Liam Ward and to return to Northern Ireland and BBC Two,” said Dornan in a statement.
Filming is set to get underway in Northern Ireland this summer.
We’ll bring you more as we have it.